Table of Contents to What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You: The Real Reasons You Don't Feel Good and What YOU Can Do About It by Doctor David Sherer
PREFACE..........................................xi
INTRODUCTION A Perfect Storm....................................xiii
CHAPTER 1 The 800-Pound American in the Room The Obesity Threat...................................1
CHAPTER 2 Medication Nation A Flawed Solution..................................17
CHAPTER 3 Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? The Potential Dangers of Medical Interventions.............35
CHAPTER 4 Pain The Universal Scourge................................67
CHAPTER 5 Pressing Issues Public Policy, Patient Responsibility, Health Trends, and the Law...........................81
CHAPTER 6 Behind the Mask Who Are Doctors, Really?..........................121
CHAPTER 7 First, Do No Harm Medical Misadventures and Malpractice.................131
CHAPTER 8 Time's Up A Look at How We Die..............................141
CHAPTER 9 "Say Again?" The Secret Language of Doctors........................149
CHAPTER 10 Mini-Med School, Part 1 A Primer of Form and Function.......................165
CHAPTER 11 Mini-Med School, Part 2 A Primer of the Biology of Disease......................181
CHAPTER 12 What Is the Worst and Best That's Happened in Medicine and Healthcare Since I Graduated Medical School........................201
Afterword.......................................233
Index...........................................239
